About | Contributors | Contact us | Subscribe: via RSS , via Twitter + sponsored by QuickBase 7 Tips for improving productivity through web-based software Telligent Releases an Integrated Suite of Collaboration Tools with High Powered Metrics by Bill Ives July 17, 2009 at 3:11 am · Filed under Web 2.0 Telligent is an enterprise collaboration and community software company that offers a social software suite for both public and internal-facing online communities. Recently,

Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) is a disappointing platform for social computing in my opinion. My position for some time has been that the next release will be a tipping point for Microsoft's social computing efforts. Either Microsoft "gets it right" and delivers a forward-looking release with significant improvements that transforms SharePoint into a market-leading social computing platform, or it delivers a release that has only incremental improvements to existing Rather than list off a "top ten" list of predictions for 2009, I thought I would briefly layout some topics and areas that business and IT decision-makers should pay attention to when formulating Enterprise 2.0

Predictions : We will substantially advance our understanding of individuals and the meaningful connections they have. We will identify methods to tap what people are *really* thinking, feeling, and paying attention to, meanwhile gaining insight on what a measurement is truly capturing. We will determine how to measure the value of social interactions and attach financial value, whether we’re monetizing attention or a new medium. We will build better tools to manage-- analyze and visualize-- massive volumes of data, primarily tapping the evolving social graph. Thanks to the many

Despite the immaturity, we evaluated nine and were impressed with Jive Software and Telligent Systems who lead the pack because of their strong administrative and platform features and solution offerings. Read Write Web: Report: Community Platforms Market Led by Jive Software and Telligent Leverage Software CEO Mike Walsh (and other vendors) have responded in the comments Josh Bernoff: Picking a community vendor? About Contact Web Strategy Vault Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing Jeremiah Owyang discusses how web tools and social media enable companies to connect with customers Forrester Wave Report: The Leaders in Community Platforms for Marketers (Part 4/4) January 09th, 2009 | Category: White Label Social Network , Analyst , Forrester Clients can access the full report The Forrester Wave™: Community Platforms, Q1 2009 on the Forrester site, however the high level findings are available below,

This is obvious and is something which IBM absolutely must execute on prior to Microsoft's O14 release. In fact, during Lotusphere 2008, I laid out such a scenario as part of the ongoing battle between IBM and Microsoft: IBM can use Connections to compete with Microsoft by changing the focus to social computing rather than collaboration and content. One of the items I was hoping to hear at Lotusphere 2009 was outlined in a recent post by Guy Creese, Research Director of our Collaboration And Content Strategies group here at Burton. In his post, " Lotusphere 2009: What

The window for IBM to have entrenched itself in "SharePoint shops" for social computing is just about closed in my opinion given that Microsoft will begin talking about the next version in greater detail later this year. Given Microsoft's weak position in terms of social computing at the time, I would have chosen "the road least traveled" and prioritized deep integration with SharePoint (e.g., Well-worth your time checking out the demo (just follow the link below). If you are using SharePoint but are considering Lotus Connections for blogs, communities, social networking, etc.,

Online communities include: Joomla, Drupal, Zikula, PHP/Nuke SharePoint, Lithium, Telligent, DotNetNuke, KickApps, Jive. Mashups are being used and Serena, Jackbe, IBM (Lotus Mashups), Microsoft (Popfly) have tools. This is part two of opening workshop by Dion Hinchcliffe on Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at the Boston Enterprise 2.0

However, Microsoft plans to release some of these enhancements in October. He mentioned that Christian Finn of Microsoft did tell him that Bing, which leverages the innovations of the semantic web technologies world to provide linked contextual answers, is a purely consumer play, while the FAST technologies are the enterprise search engine for the enterprise. He added that we need to keep measuring this success and referred to Telligent’s work. I greatly enjoyed this years Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston.

Cisco needs to compare/contrast its approach with Microsoft’s BPOS – not just e-mail but overall to equate synergies from other WebEx Collaboration Cloud services. Does Cisco believe that it is now competing in the portal market with Microsoft, IBM, Oracle? Does Cisco believe that it is now competing in the content management market with Microsoft, IBM, Oracle as well best-of-breed vendors like EMC? The following is Part 3 of a series on today's announcement by Cisco . Clarifications & Questions

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